Sentence examples for make peculiar from inspiring English sources

Martory's English was very good, but he would make peculiar mistakes that Ashbery loved and stored up for future use.

Yet here he was, sneaking away to make peculiar art from women who bore neither the stamp of perfection nor the burden of fame.

"Wagner was making peculiar noises in the kitchen.

He made peculiar faces when he talked and laughed at his own conclusions.

I think it's doing me some good, but my stomach has started making peculiar gurgling noises.

And he sometimes makes peculiar assertions about Iranian domestic politics, for example referring to Iran's fundamentalist president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — who has denied the Holocaust and the existence of gay people in Iran — as "urbane" and a "political secularist".

Frick's long, low French-style house, designed by Hastings, is straightforward in most respects, but made peculiar by the long blank limestone finger stretching out on 71st Street.

This is a strange, rather remote anxiety: like a noise heard in sleep, it does not remain what it is, but infiltrates the unconscious and makes peculiar forms there.

He skates when you want him to dig; he does that amazed, disingenuous thing, when a little old-fashioned anger and indignation would serve him far better; he makes peculiar connections between things that are not really connected at all.

The suspect appeared in court on Monday with brightly dyed orange hair and made peculiar facial expressions.

She's even making peculiar (and arguably offensive) comparisons between her situation and José Andres' choice to travel to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.